Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

“To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies;

The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
The cattle huddled on the lea;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)